Collar.



0. RYAN.

COLLAR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 19.1909.

- 985,636. Patented Feb. 28; 1911.

WIT/VESSEJ INVENTOR I those skilled in the art to which UNITED STATES PATENT Orr-ion.

CHARLES RYAN, OF SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, LUSTBALIA.

CQLLAB.

ipeciflcatlon 01' Letters Patent. Patented Feb, '19] 1,

Application filed June 19, 1009. Serial No. 503,107.

" provide {a better and easier means for con necting the tabs of a collar of this class with and detaching the same from a collar button.v

My invention relates particularly to the overlupping tab; and a further object of the inventicn is to provide means whereby thistab may be quickly and easily connected with-or detached from a collar button, and

' when attached to said button will be securely held in proper position.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the .ilCCOlIl". panying drawing forms a part, which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in whicb- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a turn down collar made according to my invention, Fig. 2 ayiew similar to Fig. 1 but showing the tabs connected with a button, and Fig. 3 an inside view of the collar and showing the same extended.

In the drawing forming part of this specification, I have shown at a an ordinary turn down collar the end portions of which are provided with the usual tabs 7) and c. The tab 0 is the overlapping tab and is longer than the tab b, and the top and bottom edges thereof are preferably substantially parallel. but the top edge of the overl pping tab a may be cut out or made'concav' as shown at 0 in Fig. 3.

The tab 7) is provided with the usual but ton hole 72 but in the practice of my invention I form in the bottom edge of the tab c and directly under the point where the button hole is usually formed in said tab a V- shaped recess The back of the collar is also provided with the usual button hole a and in connecting this collar with a shirt hand, the button 'atthe back of ,the neck band of the shirt is passed through the button hole a in the usual manner, the head of the collar button is then passed forwardly through the front part of the neck band of the shirt in the'n'siialmanner and through the button hole 6* in the'tab b of the collar. The overlapping -tab 0' is then manipulated button. into the rocess 0 and said tab 0 under the turn down corner b of the opposite end of the collar asshown in Fig. 2. If desired the last part of this operation may So as to pass the shank of the collar be easily accomplished by first passing the the side b of'the collar so that the head of the button will pass through and the shank of the collar button into the recess 0.

tab 0 under the turn down corner 5 of the opposlte end of the 0011s? and then raising The vertical width or depth of the till) 0 is such that when said tab is connected with the collar button as shown in Fig; 2, the

upper edge thereof tits, snugly under the fold of the opposite end of the collar at b as clearly indicated in Fig. 2, and the tab 0 will remain firmly in position and cannot he accidentally detached from t-hc' collar button. z

It will be observed that the axial line of I the recess 0 ranges transversely of'th'e tab 0 and the upper end of said recess terminates at the center of what would be the button hole if a button hole were formed in said tab, and this exact arrangement facilitates the operation of securing the tab 0 to the collar button and serves to hold said tab 0 in the position shown'in Fig. 2.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a collar, a band, an attached turnover top, the said band having overlapping flaps extending beyond the ends of said turn-over top and one of said flaps being provided with a button hole, and the other flap being provided with a vertical notch in its lower side, the top of said notch being a distance from the top of the band substantially equal to the distance between said but ton hole and the top of the band in which it is formed.

2. In a collar, :1. band, an attached turn I over top, the said band having overlapping flaps extending beyond the ends of said turnover top and one of said flaps being provided with n but-toil hole, and the other flap being provided with a vertical notch in,

its lower side, the top of said notch being a distance from the top of 'the band substam 'ti'ally equal to the distance between said.-

button-hole and the top of the band in which it is formed, the said notch being of flaring shape and coming to a point at the top.

3. In a collar, a band and an attached turn-over top, the said-bandfhaving overtapping ends one of said ends being" rov'ided with means for engaging a. collar utton and the other end being rovided with; i a. vertical notch in its lower e go, the top of said notch being: distance from the top of the band substentiall equal to the distance betweenthetop of t e othel band and the CHARLES RYAN.

Witnesses:

H. R. GANFIELD, C. E. MULREANY. 

